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Titre :	Nest construction by cooperative Long-tailed Glossy Starlings Lamprotornis caudatus in The Gambia (2022)
Auteurs :	Clive R. Barlow, Auteur ; Adrian J. F. K. Craig, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Malimbus (44(1) March, 2022)
Article en page(s) :	13-18
Résumé :	There is remarkably little information on nesting by the widespread Long-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis caudatus. In The Gambia in November 2018, a group of four starlings attended a hole in a damaged African Oil-palm Elaeis guineensis. At least three of them brought paper, plastic, garden litter, dry sticks, stones and rubble to the site. All these materials fell through the open base of the hollow tree and the nesting attempt was eventually abandoned. In October 2002 three birds were seen taking fresh turf into a nest hole under the eaves of a building. These observations also provide further evidence of cooperative breeding by this starling.

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